My reading of "Marx Beyond Marx" was that Negri arhued that we had now reached the point discussed in the Grundrisse in which Marx seemed to posit that socially necessary labor time could no longer be the measure of value. He was, as far as my friends and I understood, leaving behind refusal of work in favor a direct political confrontation with the state as the appropriate strategy for reappropriating the machines whose productivity could no longer be understood in his formulation as being based on work time.
Certainly by time of "Empire", "Multitude" and "Commonwealth " there is little trace of Marxist labor theory of value in Negri's work with Michael Hardt. As to dialectics, and I write this as someone who knew Toni a little and liked him (I live in Italy), and admire much of his work, I think his theory remained dialectical, bit his professed abandonment of dialectics was strictly an attempt to be fashionable in the postmodernist era. We were supposed to be beyond the dialectic, in the age of imminent communism or whatever, a thesis I always found ridiculous in a class society. Negri's book "Insurgencies" (translated from "Constituent Power" - the title in Italian), remains one the 5 or 6 greatest works of political philosophy, up there with Aristotle's Politics, the Communist Manifesto and the other usual classics and should be read by every Marxist or revolutionary. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42427): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42427 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120214562/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
